If you are going to broadcast your views about language, you might want to get a few things straight first.

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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Predictably and depressingly, the BBC has again allowed someone with no qualifications in linguistics to hold forth on the subject.Why? WHY?*

This morning we had Simon Heffer, a journalist and editor at the Daily Telegraph, complaining that young people today don’t know their grammar and it’s time people like him got into the classroom to show them what’s what. You can read the report and listen to the interview here: